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Our February meeting will take place on Wednesday, 8th February in the Irish and Local Studies Library at the usual time of 7:30 p.m.

The meeting will begin with our Annual General Meeting followed by a talk by Gerry Oates entitled ‘The Corvans of Armagh’ – An illustrated talk on this family of Armagh origin beginning in the late medieval period and tracing the fortunes of various Corvans /Corvins and Corvens up to the early 20th century. Including “Cat Gut Jim” pictured here.

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Taking three houses in Chapel Lane, Armagh as his focal point Vincent Turley traces the development of the town’s ‘little palaces’. His
research ranges from Marshal Bagenal’s 1586 description of, “a small village having the Church and the Fraries there, for the most part
defaced”, through the centuries, and on towards his own mid-twentieth century childhood recollections of one of the city’s oldest
streets, the article is entitled Chapel Lane of the Past.